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Roper and his steam carriage, made sometime before 1870. Sylvester H. Roper's father, Merrick, was a cabinetmaker, born 1792 in Sterling, Massachusetts. [1] Merrick came to Francestown, New Hampshire in 1807 and married Sylvester's mother Susan Fairbanks in 1817. [1]
Swiffer Bissell Steamboost is a steam mop. It uses special steam pads and it deeply penetrates dirt. Swiffer Continuous Clean Air Cleaner is an air filtration system introduced in 2018. [5] Like Swiffer mops, it uses a refill system for the filter, which is a common model across the air filtration industry.
Grant Locomotive Works was an American manufacturer of steam railway locomotives from 1867 to 1895, first in Paterson, New Jersey, and then in Chicago. The company built about 1,888 locomotives. The company built about 1,888 locomotives.
The Roper steam velocipede was a steam-powered velocipede built by inventor Sylvester H. Roper of Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, United States sometime from 1867 to 1869.It is one of three machines which have been called the first motorcycle, [1] along with the Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede, also dated 1867–1869, and the 1885 Daimler Reitwagen.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad places the first 2-10-0 steam locomotives in the world into use. Construction on the Union Pacific Railroad reaches Cheyenne, Wyoming. [8] An early form of dome car is introduced in Russia. [9] Construction on the Kansas Pacific Railway reaches Salina, Kansas.
The steam shovel is composed of a bucket, boom and 'dipper stick', boiler, water tank and coal bunker, a steam engine, and a winch. The steam shovel was invented in 1835 by William Otis, later receiving a patent for his invention on February 24, 1839. [69] 1835 Solar compass. William Austin Burt's solar compass
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Map of the area drawn by Charles W. Le Gendre [1] showing "Where the Rover's Crew landed" (bottom middle of map).. The Rover Incident (Chinese: 羅妹號事件; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lô-mōe-hō Sū-kiāⁿ or Chinese: 羅妹號慘案; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lô-mōe-hō Chhám-àn [1]) occurred on 12 March 1867 when the American merchant ship Rover, captained by Joseph Hunt [2] who was accompanied by his ...